Visiting family

How often did you pay your family a visit?

I suppose not often enough. I often heard my friends said that they “HAVE TO” spend the weekend with their parents. As if they rather stay away. Is it really that horrible to spend time with family?

We are only blessed with one set of birth family, that is all we got. Our parents gave us life, and make sacrifies because of us. Once we flew the cop does that means we cut all ties. We are not birds, we are human, at least I think I am.

Some times distance prevent us from being with family as often as we could, visits reduce to holidays or an occasional calls. Some of our parents or siblings are computer savvay. That makes staying in touch a lot easier. However, I find that phone calls are a lot more acceptable. These days with “ SKYPE” or inter net phone. We can actually talk in real time with our families. There is nothing can replace seeing someone rather than just their voice on the phone line.

We do not have family visit in the city often, for start, I live in NYC, we have everything but space. Many families use to suburban living, found our average apartments in Manhattan rather uncomfortable.

For the rest of us, the anticipation of the arrival of families seems to drain every ounce of my energy. Trying to balance work and visiting families seems like a momunental task at time. However once family arrived, we will found that all the worries are not necessary.

Family grow up with you, understand your personality, no matter how long it has been since you saw each other last, or the distance that keeps you apart. There will be no pretending, no apologie necessary. They settle in. Not too comfortably, but they did.

I had an enjoyable family visit recently. After all the tourist destinations we took a rare opportunity to take a stroll thru Central Park. I ran through the park in many of my exercise morning runs, I have never taken the time to appreciate the beauty, while staying on the course. With visitors strolling on foot, allow you to flash back on any other times, when your parents were young and able, and siblings were care free to life. Those times had gone by all we have left is memories, and each other, that makes each family visits the more important.

While US Memorial Day weekend is just around the corner. Many of us may be planning a trip to get away from the city. Why not go home for a visits.

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